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						Impact Rechtsanwälte Avocat	Berlin - Paris			</span>

Structure leads to freedom and security.

In the area of corporate law, our expertise ranges from assisting in the formation of a company while taking into account the relevant tax issues, providing corporate law support in day-to-day activities, to advising on complex transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and company succession.

We also advise and represent our clients in the event of shareholder disputes and provide answers on all issues regarding the liability of managing directors.

In Commercial law, we have expertise in national and international distribution law. In particular, we have many years of experience in Franco-German commercial agents law. We advise and represent both commercial agents and the companies that employ them.

Furthermore, we are active in the fields of distribution law and franchise law. We review and draft franchise agreements for our clients and assess franchise projects from various industries.

Our focus in Insolvency law is advising and representation of companies preparing for and beginning insolvency proceedings. Furthermore, we assist insolvency debtors throughout the insolvency proceedings. We have many years of experience in representing managing executives whose personal responsibility is sought by insolvency administrators. In this context, we also regularly handle criminal cases regarding financial and economic crimes.

In the international scene, Germany is a magnet for immigration.

In 2020, the German legislator, with the "Skilled Workers Immigration Act", created a new legal framework for the future-oriented and demand-oriented immigration of skilled workers from third countries.

For many years, our law firm is specialized in business immigration. We advise national companies on the employment of foreign employees. Furthermore, our firm advises and represents persons who need a visa for work and training purposes and who want to live in Germany. We also provide legal advice in the context of the recognition of foreign academic and professional qualifications.

Finally, our range of advice in the area of business immigration also extends to foreign clients who wish to establish companies in Germany or who wish to invest in German companies.

To find solution of the corporate and trade law in this context is part of our regular practice.

Many questions cannot, at first glance, be assigned to one or more areas of law, a lot not belonging to only one area in any case. Come to us with all your questions.

Our range of services covers all areas of law that are closely related to the economic interests of our clients.

This includes intellectual property rights and Franco-German inheritance law, in particular in the areas of succession planning and the creation of inheritance and corporate law options in family businesses.

In matters of residency (business immigration), we also provide legal assistance and advice to companies about the entry and establishment of foreign business people in Germany and France.

In addition, we support foreign investors and start-up entrepreneurs, managers, qualified specialists and their families in all matters regarding residency law.

Lasting success for a company will always depend on its employees.

We advise and represent employers and employees in all areas of labor law, including collective labor law (collective representation, collective agreements etc.).

As far as employers are concerned, our mandates especially involve providing permanent legal advice to companies by being in direct contact with their legal and human resources departments for any issue regarding labor law and social security law. We have experience in the implementation in Germany of a French’s company human resource policy, in the event of the creation of an affiliated company for example. We also provide training courses (in-house seminars), especially for the legal and human resources departments.

Over the years, we represent our clients when necessary before the labor courts throughout Germany.

In addition, we provide advice to managing directors, board members and employees, especially during employment and pre-termination negotiations.

Finally, another focus of our activities regards the issues raised in case of employee deployment, especially between France and Germany.

A good agreement has to be clear and complete. It eliminates ambiguity and paves the way for future legal relationships.

In this respect, we advise our clients on all contractual issues of their commercial activities and practices. We draft agreements and assist our clients in applying, interpreting, implementing and enforcing contractual stipulations in the event of a dispute.

Our contractual expertise extends to all areas of commercial contract law, in particular purchase and delivery contracts, service contracts, employment agreements, real estate transactions, commercial leases, partnership and distribution agreements (including e-commerce), as well as data protection agreements. Of course, negotiations of standard clauses such as general terms and conditions are also part of our activity.

With regards to our Franco-German practice, we pay attention to the applicability of agreements in different countries (private international law).

Whether you buy or rent, your commitment is usually a longer-term one.

We have many years of experience in all areas of German real estate law. We advise our clients on the acquisition, leasing and sale of real estate or property companies.

Especially, we advise and represent retail firms during negotiations and when drafting commercial leases, and we represent them in the event of a conflict.

Interpersonal relationships cannot be separated from legal issues. Unfortunately separation and divorce are part of the reality of life.

The drafting of contracts before and after marriage, agreements for non-marital partnerships or for same-sex partnerships, separation and divorce agreements, are the focus of our legal work.

If contentious proceedings before the family courts cannot be avoided, we represent you in these proceedings for divorce, maintenance, pension compensation, equalization of accrued gains, as well as for property disputes. Disputes in connection with joint children are also part of our legal practice.

Nasrin Karimi has proven her expertise in international family law and is familiar with complex case of binational marriages.

Inheriting and bequeathing - the freedom to decide freely about one's assets still applies after a person's death.

We advise and represent our clients in all case connected with inheritance law.

Our legal advisory practice has a central role in the drafting and reviewing of wills, as well as inheritance and donation contracts in the context of asset succession planning.

Furthermore, we advise and represent our clients in disputes with other heirs, disputes concerning compulsory portions and inheritance certificate proceedings.

Due to our international orientation, we have special expertise and many years of experience in inheritance cases with foreign connections. As international cases of donation or inheritance can be complex when it comes to tax, we are cooperating with specialized tax consultants.